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The Sekisui map of Japan, 1783 The Whole Map of Japan. Nagakubo Sekisui and Osei Soya. 1783. One of the first maps published in Japan to have the meridians and parallels as well as the scale of distance clearly marked. Sekisui consultated many sources, beginning with maps made by the shogunate, before drafting his own map. The "Sekisui map" became the authoritative map of Japan for the next ninety years until the fall of the Tokugawa regime. From the Yale University Library Map Collection. URL: –http://www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/Lan18.ht m

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